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Contents 1 British Columbia 2 WikiProject Biography Newsletter 5 3 Wikipedia Weekly Episode 32 4 WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive 5 James Hall (Actor) 6 Smile 7 {{WikiProject Canada}} 8 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 9 WikiProject Biography newsletter 10 Premiers

British Columbia

It would require a lot of work to get it up to FA standard. It is currently probably closer to a B-class. To do:

• use WP:SS on the history section - cut it from 7 sub-sections to 7 paragraphs. India#History does a good job of this: the history of India in 5 paragraphs.
• less tables, more prose in Demographics.
• elaboration on the Economy.
• prune the See Also link farm.
• provide footnotes where appropriate.

I can help if this is something you want to take the lead in. --maclean 02:16, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

All good ideas. Sometimes things sit on my todo list a while before they get attention, but this is something I would like to see happen so I will get to some of these things even if it isn't right away --KenWalker | Talk 04:48, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Biography Newsletter 5

The Biography WikiProject Newsletter Volume IV, no. 4 - September 2007
Project News The three-month long Summer Assessment Drive, organized by Psychless, was a huge success! It ran from June 1 – September 1, and reduced the backlog of unassessed articles from 113,385 to 56,237. In all, over 100,000 articles were assessed. Over 60 people contributed in some way. A barnstar has been created for exceptional work on Wikipedia biographies and for assisting the project. The Biography Barnstar is listed with the other WikiProject awards and can be awarded easily with a template. See the template page for more details. Member News Congratulations to the editors who worked on the newest featured biographies: Augustus; William Shakespeare; Adriaen van der Donck; Alfred Russel Wallace; Alison Krauss; Anne Frank; Anne of Denmark; Asser; Bart King; Bill O'Reilly; Bobby Robson; Bradley Joseph; CM Punk; Ceawlin of Wessex; Colley Cibber; Cædwalla of Wessex; Dominik Hašek; Elizabeth Needham; Frank Macfarlane Burnet; Georg Cantor; Gregory of Nazianzus; Gunnhild Mother of Kings; Gwen Stefani; Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery; Harriet Arbuthnot; Harry S. Truman; Henry, Bishop of Uppsala; Héctor Lavoe; Ine of Wessex; Ion Heliade Rădulescu; Jack Sheppard; Jackie Chan; Jay Chou; John Martin Scripps; John Mayer; Joseph Francis Shea; Joshua A. Norton; Kate Bush; Kazi Nazrul Islam; Kevin Pietersen; Martin Brodeur; Mary Martha Sherwood; Mary of Teck; Maximus the Confessor; Miranda Otto; Muhammad Ali Jinnah; P. K. van der Byl; Penda of Mercia; Pham Ngoc Thao; Rabindranath Tagore; Ramón Emeterio Betances; Red Barn Murder; Richard Hakluyt; Richard Hawes; Robert Garran; Roman Vishniac; Ronald Niel Stuart; Ronald Reagan; Roy Welensky; Rudolph Cartier; Samuel Adams; Samuel Beckett; Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; Sarah Trimmer; Sargon of Akkad; Shen Kuo; Sophie Blanchard; Stereolab; Sydney Newman; Sylvanus Morley; Tim Duncan; Timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft; Uncle Tupelo; Waisale Serevi; Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Walter Model; William Bruce; William Goebel; Yagan; Zhou Tong; Æthelbald of Mercia; Æthelbald of Mercia New Members Congratulations to our 225 new members	From the Editors The newsletter is back! Many things have gone on during the past few months, but many things have not. While the assessment drive helped revitalize the assessment department of the project, many other departments have received no attention. Most notably: peer review and our "workgroups". A day long IRC meeting has been planned for October 13th, with the major focus being which areas of the project are "dead", what should our goals be as a project, and how to "revive" the dead areas of our project. Contribute to the discussion on the the new channel (see below) We decided to deliver this newsletter to all project members this month but only those with their names down here will get it delivered in the future. This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned or post news on the next issue's talk page New irc channel Lastly, a new WikiProject Biography channel has been set up on the freenode network: #wikipedia-en-bio Our thanks to Phoenix 15 for setting it up. Contributors to this Issue Psychless (talk · contribs) Phoenix 15 (talk · contribs)
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Wikipedia Weekly Episode 32

WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive

James Hall (Actor)

Hello Sir,

I have added source reference links from third party publications for verification of the material on this upcoming talent.

Is this what you were looking for and referring to with the tag (00:19, 1 July 2007 KenWalker (Talk | contribs) (7,551 bytes) (See also WP:BIO for notability for entertainers, article appears to be written by its subject and lacks sources of content))?

I am new to this and have been trying to help. I just want to know if I am doing it right and that the content source references adequately establish the validity. It would be a shame if this article was deleted. :(

Thank you

Smile

{{WikiProject Canada}}

Hi. Thanks for your efforts in tagging articles as part of WikiProject Canada, but I have had to change a few of them after you. Please note that "impotance=high" is pretty exclusive, and should be limited to subjects and people that everyone has heard of, like former prime ministers and major cities; other articles are either mid or low importance. Also, "cangov=yes" is mostly for the structures of the govenment, not the people in it. For the people, use "ppap=yes". Again, thanks for your help in tagging the articles in the first place. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 19:15, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips. I have noticed your changes and the edit summaries you have left have been helpful. I have also seen the details you have provided on the template page which are well done and clarify things considerably from whatever it was that I looked at before. Thanks for doing that. I have agreed with nearly all of your changes although I thought the Chief Justice of Canada might warrant importance=high. I had wondered about Cangov applying to people and saw something somewhere that made me think it applied to people as well, but it makes more sense to do it as you have laid out. I will follow your recommendations, thanks for sharing them with me. --KenWalker | Talk 20:01, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

You probably also noticed that I took out the "type=article" tag. Articles are the default even though they don't show up unless you specifically mention it. I think we only need to use the "type" parameter for lists from now on. I agree with you about the chief justice; they should be "high" and the other members of the supreme court should be "mid". If I demoted a chief justice, that was an error on my part. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 00:11, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

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Premiers

Oh, I can explain why we had both. For obvious reasons, how we do things on Wikipedia is always in a state of evolution — succession boxes are an older and somewhat outdated way of adding that information to articles. But when the position templates were created, people added them without removing the duplicate succession boxes, and so newer editors presumably got the impression that every article had to have both. There's a creeping process of template overload — every time somebody comes up with an innovative new way of presenting information, it gets copied to other classes of articles, but the people who add the new way don't remove the old way, so the templates just keep piling up. Bearcat 16:00, 22 October 2007 (UTC)